Tag: new york

  • NYC food porn: Telepan #6-#10

    For Telepan’s menu and photos of our appetizers, check our earlier post here: Telepan #1-#5 One of my pet peeves about restaurants has always been the lighting, which is mostly way too dark to see what is on the plate.  At Telepan, the room was comfortably lit.  The waitstaff was professional and the tables were…

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  • NYC food porn: Telepan #1-#5

    This was a group effort, eating-wise.  Seven of us, the usual suspects plus Patrick who was visiting from Chicago, went to Telepan on 69th and Columbus.  They offered a four- or five -course tasting menu.  The five-course menu includes cheese.  We opted for the four-course dinner which gives us six choices each of an appetizer,…

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  • Christmas Bash / Nor’easter

    Last night we went to the annual christmas bash in Montclair. As always, we had a great time: conversations, live music, carol singing, food and drinks, karaoke, etc.  Calebc and Shecrow are great hosts, thank you.  Outside was a roaring Nor’easter tearing up the East Coast.  The snow storm persisted much of the evening and…

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  • Louis Vuitton / Solari di Udine

    We went to see the christmas tree at Rockerfellar Center and the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue a few nights ago.  As we passed Louis Vuitton’s New York flagship store on the corner of Fifth Ave and 57th Street, I noticed something flickering in the shop windows.  What caught my eye was the flipping of rows…

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